'This Week' Transcript: Panetta

June 27, 2010

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CHANDRASEKARAN: Both sides in this town have an incentive to let
this drag out longer. The Republicans certainly playing to their base
don't want to be seen as adding to the debt issues in a midterm
election year. The Democrats I think are trying to sort of push the
Republicans and trying to make them look like the party that's denying
1.2 million people an extension of these benefits.

And so, this is going to play out for several more weeks, and
both sides are going to try to use it for their -- unfortunately, for
their political gain, as we head toward the November midterms.

TAPPER: All right. Well, the roundtable will continue in the
green room on abcnews.com. Hopefully they'll talk about Wall Street
reform. We didn't get a chance to talk about that today. And at
abcnews.com, you can also later find our fact checks of our
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